Today we are going to introduce to you the world’s first 2.5-inch hard disk drive with the perpendicular recording technology. This will be the solution from Seagate, a new member in the Momentus family. Let’s find out the exciting details now!

Performance in PCMark04

We once again resorted to PCMark04 to get a better look on the performance of our today’s hero.With this benchmarking suite we will test the performance of our hard disk drives in five different modes. You can read more about PCMark04 benchmark and its advantages for HDD testing in our article called “PCMark04: Benchmark for Hard Disk Drives? ”.

Windows XP Startup test contains a sequence of requests sent to the HDD on system start-up. Application Loading test shows disk activity when the system opens and closes six popular applications. File Copying test shows the HDD activity when copying a set of files. Hard Disk Drive Usage reports the disk activity during the work with some widely spread applications.

Having run all the tests for a given HDD, PCMark04 generates a certain performance index calculated according to the following formula: